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Children Keʻelikōlani

john william pitt kīnaʻu william pitt leleiohoku she bore 2 sons, both died young. john william pitt kīnaʻu, son of leleiohoku, born on december 21, 1842. taken away @ age attend royal school in honolulu, , died september 9, 1859. keolaokalani davis, son of isaac young davis born in february 1862 , hānai (adopted) against father s wishes bernice pauahi bishop. died on august 29, 1863, aged 1 year , 6 months. her adopted son, called leleiohoku ii after first husband, born january 10, 1854, became crown prince of hawaii, died april 9, 1877, when 23 years old. on death of adopted son, demanded kalākaua , family relinquish rights estates had bequeathed brother, , returned deed. relations king kalākaua distant, although had close friendships sister, queen liliʻuokalani, , mother, keohokalole. she godmother princess kaʻiulani. @ kaʻiulani s baptism, ruth gifted 10 acres (40,000 m) of land in waikīkī kaʻiulani s father archibald cleghorn built ʻĀinahau estate. kaʻiulani gave ruth pen name...

Operational history Vickers Valetta

vickers valetta t.3 of raf college @ blackbushe airport in september 1956. note cabin-top astrodomes , aerials navigational training valetta t.4 of no.2 ans extended radar nose the valetta c.2 vip passenger transport , range. the valetta t.3 built provide navigational trainer service raf college @ raf cranwell , no.1 , no.2 air navigation schools. 40 delivered august 1951, last being wj487 in september 1952. 18 valetta t.3 aircraft later converted t.4 standard longer nose fitted accommodate radar scanner in order train crews in ai (airborne interception) role.

Scientific and environmental impact Tobacco mosaic virus

tmv virus: super resolution light microscopy the large amount of literature tmv , choice many pioneering investigations in structural biology (including x-ray diffraction), virus assembly , disassembly, , on, fundamentally due large quantities can obtained, plus fact not infect animals. after growing few infected tobacco plants in greenhouse , few simple laboratory procedures, scientist can produce several grams of virus. result of this, tmv can treated organic chemical, rather infective agent. james d. watson, in memoir double helix, cites x-ray investigation of tmv s helical structure important step in deducing nature of dna molecule.

Notable people Lancaster, Massachusetts

^  wilson, james grant; fiske, john, eds. (1892). harrington, timothy . appletons cyclopædia of american biography. new york: d. appleton.  ^  wilson, james grant; fiske, john, eds. (1892). haskell, abraham . appletons cyclopædia of american biography. new york: d. appleton.  ^  wilson, james grant; fiske, john, eds. (1889). whitcomb, john . appletons cyclopædia of american biography. new york: d. appleton.  ^  wilson, james grant; fiske, john, eds. (1889). whiting, henry . appletons cyclopædia of american biography. new york: d. appleton.  ^  wilson, james grant; fiske, john, eds. (1889). willard, abijah . appletons cyclopædia of american biography. new york: d. appleton. 

Notable works Takeo Kanade

^ implementation of kanade–lucas–tomasi feature tracker ^ cite error: named reference rowleybaluja invoked never defined (see page). ^ carlo tomasi; takeo kanade (november 1992). shape , motion image streams under orthography: factorization method . international journal of computer vision. 9 (2): 137–154. doi:10.1007/bf00129684.  ^ takeo kanade; peter rander; p j narayanan (january 1997). virtualized reality: constructing virtual worlds real scenes . ieee multimedia, immersive telepresence. 4 (1): 34–47. doi:10.1109/93.580394.  ^ takeo kanade; atsushi yoshida; kazuo oda; hiroshi kano; masaya tanaka (1996). stereo machine video-rate dense depth mapping , new applications . ieee cvpr.  ^ vladimir brajovic; takeo kanade (august 1998). computational sensor visual tracking attention . ieee journal of solid state circuits. 33 (8): 1199–1207. doi:10.1109/4.705358.  ^ takeo kanade (june 1980). theory of origami world . artificial intelligence. 13: 279–311. doi:10.1016...

Expedition in Russia, 1829 Alexander von Humboldt

alexander von humboldt, portrait w. pickersgill (1831) in 1811, , again in 1818, projects of asiatic exploration proposed humboldt, first czar nicolas s russian government, , afterwards prussian government; on each occasion, untoward circumstances interposed. not until had begun sixtieth year resumed role of traveler in interests of science. the russian foreign minister, count georg von cancrin contacted humboldt whether platinum-based currency possible in russia , invited him visit ural mountains. humboldt not encouraging platinum-based currency, when silver standard world currency. invitation visit urals intriguing, since humboldt had long dreamed of going asia. had wanted travel india , made considerable efforts persuade british east india company authorize trip, efforts fruitless. when russia renewed earlier invitation humboldt, humboldt accepted. russians sought entice humboldt engaging enduring interest in mining sites, comparative scientific purposes humboldt, russians gain expe...

Operational models Würzburg radar

würzburg d in use. quirl conical scanning antenna prominent. several versions of basic würzburg system deployed on course of war. first, würzburg a, operated manually , required operators pinpoint target maintaining maximum signal on oscilloscope display. since signal strength changed on own various reasons being on or off target, inaccurate , required use of searchlight spot target once radar had settled on approximate position. nevertheless, 1 of first würzburgs in service directly assisted in shooting-down of aircraft in may 1940 orally relaying commands flak unit. experimental würzburg b added infra-red detector fine tuning, in general these devices proved unusable , production discontinued. würzburg folded travel. note simple antenna system. würzburg c featured lobe switching improve aiming accuracy. c model aimed sending signal out of 1 of 2 off-centre feed horns in middle of antenna, signal being switched rapidly between 2 horns. both returns sent oscilloscope display, delaying ...